Lu Xunji

Biodata

Background / History

Lu Xunji grew up in the countryside after his identity was switched, spending eighteen years away from his biological family. His upbringing left him with practical skills that surprised viewers expecting an inexperienced wealthy young master 13 36 38.

During one summer vacation, a teacher discovered him filthy and neglected in a pigpen. She carried him out, took him into her home, and provided clean clothes, food, and a bed. He stayed with her for the final month of the vacation before entering middle school. His grades subsequently remained the best in the city, making her proud 71.

His childhood and school years also involved public humiliation. People from his hometown came to his school and called him a monster and a future rapist; classmates repeated the abuse. Admirers withdrew when confronted with his silence and difficulty empathizing, while family members recoiled after learning about his mental health problems 79.

Returning to the Xie Household did not produce an immediate emotional reunion. Lu Xunji remained unmoved by his biological parents’ tears, and Mother Xie found his coldness frightening. He told Xie Ji that he neither objected to his remaining in the household nor intended to compete for their parents’ affection 7 101.

Appearance

• Build: Approximately six feet three inches tall, with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, long legs, and pronounced musculature, including eight-pack abdominal muscles 38 83 95.
• Measurements: The system lists his chest circumference as 110 cm and his leg length as 1.2 m 1.
• Hair and eyes: Black hair, dark lashes, and deep violet eyes, also described as burgundy-purple in the sunset 60 141.
• Complexion and features: Pale skin, sharply defined features, and an aloof, imposing expression 3 60 99.
• Scars: Old scars on his wrist and recurring self-inflicted cuts on his arm 43 101.
• Scent: A faint, cool plum-blossom fragrance 150.

Personality

Lu Xunji presents a controlled, refined exterior but is often contemptuous and difficult to approach. He is observant enough to recognize Xie Ji’s calculated behavior early, and his dry mockery frequently turns their exchanges into contests over who holds the advantage 7 66 92.

He describes himself as having little capacity for empathy and rarely caring about others’ opinions. His apparent detachment nevertheless conceals intense desire, anxiety, shame, and an expectation of rejection. His history of being feared and abandoned makes Xie Ji’s continued affection particularly important to him 65 71 79 86.

His discipline extends well beyond his public image. He exercises at five in the morning despite exhausting workdays, reads before bed, and later studies on roughly four hours of sleep each night. Xie Ji recognizes that his achievements require sustained effort rather than effortless genius 79 129 133.

With Xie Ji, he becomes affectionate, jealous, provocative, and unusually vulnerable. His early possessiveness includes an instinct to cut off Xie Ji’s other sources of support, which he consciously challenges in a private notebook. As their relationship develops, he apologizes for withdrawing during disagreements and explains that his jealousy is a request for reassurance—not a demand that Xie Ji abandon his friends 101 141.

Abilities & Skills

Close-Quarters Combat

Lu Xunji belongs to the Imperial Military Academy’s individual combat department and repeatedly overpowers armed opponents during its wilderness assessment 107 108 148.

• Incapacitates patrolling soldiers and takes their supplies before they can effectively respond 107.
• Uses disarming strikes, throws, kicks, and his military boots against opponents carrying ion guns 108.
• Continues fighting after sustaining a serious arm wound, though the injury requires treatment 108 109.

Survival and Fieldcraft

He manages routes, supplies, scouting, and security during the assessment 105 106 109.

• Reads maps, alters their route to accommodate Xie Ji’s exhaustion, and locates water 106.
• Detects movement in nearby vegetation before Xie Ji hears it 107.
• Frequently keeps watch through the night, resting only in short intervals 109.

Academic Ability and Military Command

Lu Xunji is the nation’s top scorer and enters the academy through special admissions. Although enrolled in individual combat, he independently studies command to an advanced level 124 133.

• Passes the command department’s third-year assessment with an excellent grade shortly after arriving at the academy 133.
• Takes command of the Second War Zone because command personnel are scarce 148.
• Improves the zone’s organization and initiates research and cultivation on nearby abandoned planets, preparing for a prolonged war 149.
• Remains the Empire’s mainstay when the other war zones can no longer hold out 151.

Design, Construction, and Domestic Skills

He handles much of the farmstay’s design and furnishing and is an accomplished cook and caregiver 53 54 74 84.

• Designs and helps develop the Chinese-style courtyard villa; Shang Yan considers his architectural work professional 84.
• Builds a kitchen and pond and manages fish and livestock 53 78 84.
• Cooks for the group and carefully washes Xie Ji’s soot-covered hair after the kitchen fire 53 54.
• Makes Goose Pear Bedchamber Incense himself 84.

Animal Handling

Animals respond strongly to his presence, and he successfully trains the troublesome puppy A-Gang 78 84.

• Makes A-Gang obedient after she repeatedly damages the pond and bites its fish 78.
• Keeps both puppies responsive to his instructions without encouraging their attempts to cling to him 129.
• Causes the livestock enclosure to fall silent when he enters; the reason is not established 84.

Mental Health

• Described condition: The system characterizes his problem as an addiction involving a pathological psychological need. Lu Xunji later describes emotional instability and anxiety accompanied by intense sexual urges; no precise clinical diagnosis is supplied 2 65.
• Self-harm: He repeatedly cuts himself during distress. One crisis aboard an airship severely reopens his arm wounds, requiring hospital treatment and a blood transfusion 43 59 62 79.
• Control: He is capable of concealing his symptoms and exercising considerable restraint. He tells Xie Ji that he has never kissed anyone else 68 87.
• Relationship to Xie Ji: He fears that revealing his condition will lead Xie Ji to reject him. Xie Ji instead tends his injuries, encourages him to seek medical help, and remains close to him 45 65 68.
• Self-destructive outlook: He admits that the special assessment was partly an attempt to save himself from his weariness with life. Later affection does not immediately resolve these tendencies 141 154.

Story Role / Major Arcs

*Young Field* and the Farmstay

• Early antagonism: Xie Ji first approaches him expecting a woman, then repeatedly provokes him with suggestive gifts and teasing. Lu Xunji is attracted to him but suspicious of his motives 1 3 7.
• Growing intimacy: Their shared sleeping arrangements, kisses, and jealous disputes increasingly contradict their supposed relationship as “brothers.” Livestream viewers begin treating the countryside program like a dating show 17 20 37.
• First major reconciliation: After Xie Ji discovers his self-inflicted cuts, Lu Xunji recoils from his touch. They reconcile on a speedboat, where Xie Ji treats his wounds and recognizes that his behavior reflects deeper pain 43 45.
• Caregiving: Lu Xunji looks after Xie Ji during a fever, then becomes the patient himself after the airship crisis 56 59.
• Withdrawal: He eventually offers to leave the Xie family identity to Xie Ji and go away rather than force an unwanted relationship. Xie Ji insists on following him to the Imperial Military Academy 94 95.

Academy Assessment and Courtship

• Wilderness assessment: Lu Xunji protects and guides Xie Ji but suffers serious injuries. Xie Ji ultimately carries him out, saving his life 105 108 114 115.
• Learning to court: In hospital, he proposes trying a relationship. When Xie Ji objects to his blunt approach, Lu Xunji earnestly asks to be taught 115.
• Confession: He tells Xie Ji that he wants him to understand his past and share his future, then explicitly declares his love 123.
• Campus life: He cares for Xie Ji while the latter is transformed into a kitten, advances in command studies, and rejects Shen Ting’s romantic advances and partnership proposal 130 133 134.
• Established relationship: The pair discuss boundaries, jealousy, and communication. Lu Xunji brings Xie Ji a birthday cake and a medal that can grant him a small imperial fief 141.

Second War Zone and World Crisis

• Deployment: Lu Xunji arranges for Xie Ji to accompany him to the front. His assignment is commander-in-chief of the Second War Zone rather than a place in an individual combat squad 147 148.
• Public acknowledgment: Xie Ji calls him his boyfriend and reassures him that their relationship can exist openly rather than through secret kisses 148.
• Protracted defense: He organizes the war zone against multiplying unidentified organisms, working with little sleep as the crisis worsens and a black hole continues collapsing 149 150.
• Conflict over sacrifice: When Xie Ji argues that he must remain safe for the Empire’s sake, Lu Xunji rejects the expectation that he should simply watch Xie Ji go to his death 151.
• Mission completion: During a scene involving a fall, his affection reaches the system’s upper limit. The system declares Xie Ji’s mission successful, after which time appears to stop 156.

System Favorability

Lu Xunji is a target of Xie Ji’s protection mission. His favorability is a relationship metric, not a combat level; its erratic early fluctuations repeatedly confuse Xie Ji 22 23 124.

Relationships

• Xie Ji — His switched-identity counterpart and eventual boyfriend. Their relationship develops from suspicion and mutual provocation into reciprocal care, explicit declarations of love, and negotiated boundaries 7 115 123 141 148.
• Father Xie and Mother Xie — His biological parents. Their reunion remains emotionally distant, and he declines to compete with Xie Ji for their affection 7 101.
• His childhood teacher — Rescued him from neglect, housed him before middle school, and took pride in his academic achievements 71.
• Ji Shi — A frequent rival for Xie Ji’s attention. Despite their hostility, Lu Xunji helps him finish planting rice late at night 17 36 37.
• Shang Yan — Challenges his treatment of Xie Ji and urges him to respect someone who cares for him. He also helps during Lu Xunji’s airship crisis 59 62 76.
• Shen Ting — Competes alongside him closely enough to attract campus shipping, but Lu Xunji rejects his advances and proposed partnership 134.
• A-Gang and A-Qiang — Farmstay puppies who obey him. He trains A-Gang and maintains their living area 78 79 129.
• Big Orange — A cat he allows Xie Ji to keep, despite the animal being frightened of him 134 135.

Equipment / Items

• Black card — Contains five million; Lu Xunji uses it to tease Xie Ji during the show’s early stages 3 11.
• Light brain — Used for communication, deployment assignments, and military work 142 148.
• Assessment gear — Includes a map, backpack, dagger, and water bladders 106 107.
• Private notebook — Records a reminder not to isolate Xie Ji from the love and support in which he grew up 101.
• Medal — Earned by Lu Xunji and presented to Xie Ji as a birthday gift; it carries the right to a small fief in the Empire 141 142.

Notable Quotes

“He grew in the fertile soil of love. Do not try to uproot him.” 101

“I'm not very good at this, Xie Ji. Teach me.” 115

“When I say ‘I'm jealous,’ I mean ‘please reassure me.’” 141

Trivia

• His black-scaled snake tail appears in Xie Ji’s dream. The supplied account does not establish it as a waking transformation 17.
• Xie Ji cannot read his destiny chart even after using more than a dozen Divine Sense Fruits. His suspicion that Lu Xunji is “not of the mortal realm” remains speculation 124 126.
• Lu Xunji recognized the intimate model Xie Ji carried at their first meeting. Xie Ji only learns this much later and realizes how suspicious his early behavior must have appeared 116.
• Although he claims knowledge of jade during one exchange, he subsequently admits that he invented the explanation on the spot 40.